Realizing ESL with Scalable Transaction Level Models

The OSCI TLM2 standard, scalable transaction-level models, and a methodology built around the Vista Model Builder technology overcome the three prevalent concerns about electronic system level design. This paper describes how these barriers to adoption have been addressed by the arrival of standard, scalable transaction-level models and the Model Builder methodology, and it presents an example of how to use Vista Model Builder for protocol aware timing simulation.